IN IRELAND

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) AN ARRANGED MURDER. (Received this day at 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 27. Bells’ assassination was apparently arranged to the minutest detail. Four fellow passengers waited for the moment and one tapped Bell on the shouljjOl* and said.“ Your time has come.” Bell was forcibly removed to the footpath and shot dead. The assassins then walked off unconcerned and separated.

A REPUBLICAN PROCLAMATION. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 30. Placards throughout Southern Ireland, signed by the General Officer commanding the Irish Republcan Army proclaim the suppression of the Royal Irish Constabulary. It described them as traitors, bloodhounds and spies, conspiring with the enemy to outrage a law-abidng peaceful people. It warns prospective recruits that they join at their own peril. MR McCURTAIN’S MURDER. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 30. It is rumoured a Cork meeting of the Irish Republican Brotherhood was held just before the Mac Curtain murder, at which MacCurtan was present. Several members were expelled, apparently because the were unwilling to continue the policy of murder. One of those expelled was shot after leaving tlie meeting. Mac Curtain’s death is attributed to a similar cause. It is asserted that recent murders, attributed to the Sinn Fein, were carried out by groups of hired' assassins, paid by an American organisation.

ANOTHER SHOCKING OUTRAGE. (Received thisr day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 30. Armed men, with blackened faces, shot dead Thomas Dwyer, aged 25, in a house at Thurles. .This is the third murder in Tipperary in three days. Later particulars show that Dwyer was a publican and brother of a priest in the Australian Mission. His sister, Mrs Delaney, asked the knockers through the key-hole who they were. “Friends,” was the reply; “Is Tom inside.” Mrs Delaney replied ho was not here. The knockerß broke down the door. Dwyer, who had been asleep upstairs, came down and met five riflemen. One covered his sister with a rifle, and the rest fired and Dwyer fell, riddled with bullets. , As he lay on the ground, one assailant asked if he had enough. Another said, “Give him another.” A final shot was fired into the body. One of the murderers asked the sister, “ Is there anyone else to be shot,” and left, slamming the door and firing further shots outside, apparently for the purpose of general terrorism. Almost, simultaneously, an explosion took place, in the house of Richard Small, who is a Poor Law Guardian, which wrecked the front of the shop. Tlmrles lias been the scene of several murders during recent months.